Gordonsville Home Basement Floods During Storm

8/15/2018 (Permalink)

The flood water comes halfway up the legs on this pool table.

Dripping is never a good sound in your home. Often when we are in a home that has suffered water damage, there can be a dripping or trickling sound that lets us know that the source of the water hasn’t yet been fixed. But in this case, it was gushing. In the basement of this Gordonsville home, water from a recent storm let itself in and made itself at home. In the end, there were six inches of standing water and when our SERVPRO team arrived, there was still water coming in.

Once our team of SERVPRO professionals were on the job, our first step was to get the water out. Our team set up multiple sump pumps and started pumping! It’s both amazing and devastating to see water that has reached this level begin to recede. It’s encouraging because it feels like the space is being released from a watery imprisonment. But it’s also incredibly hard to see the damage that the water—especially water that has first flowed over ground and contains outside contaminants— has left on the walls and the contents of the room. Once the majority of the water was extracted, our team really went to work.

Thankfully, at this point the homeowner had his own sump pump installed to prevent this kind of damage from happening again. Once it was installed our team started the drying process. Even after all the visible water is extracted from a location, the contents of the room and the room itself still have excess moisture that needs to be removed in order to restore a home to its preloss condition. Our team added the equipment that was needed for the drying process and completed the restoration process. We’re so glad that this story had a happy ending. Check out our Before and After page to see the final result in this space.